Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on 16-to-19 Education Funding - Sep 7
Friday, 8 September 2017 07:28
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab):...It is welcome that there is now a
single national funding formula for 16-to-19, but that does not
compensate for its inadequacy. There is still inequality, as I have
mentioned, between schools that can claim back VAT and colleges
that cannot, leaving the average sixth form college with £385,914
less to spend on their students. There is no evidence base for the
Government’s assertion that the funds provided are sufficient. That
is why I support the joint call...Request free trial
(Scunthorpe) (Lab):...It
is welcome that there is now a single national funding formula for
16-to-19, but that does not compensate for its inadequacy. There is
still inequality, as I have mentioned, between schools that can
claim back VAT and colleges that cannot, leaving the average sixth
form college with £385,914 less to spend on their students. There
is no evidence base for the Government’s assertion that the funds
provided are sufficient. That is why I support the joint call from
the Association of School and College Leaders, the
Association of Colleges and the Sixth Form Colleges Association for
the Government to conduct a proper review of sixth form funding to
ensure it is linked to the realistic costs of delivering the
rounded full-time education that we all want our young people to
have...
(Waveney)
(Con):...STEM subjects are vital at Lowestoft Sixth
Form College, but, worryingly, research shows that 15% of
sixth-form colleges across the country have dropped STEM subjects.
At the present time, when the nation should be producing more
engineers and scientists, that trend must be reversed. The
Government’s T-education proposals are welcome, but are likely to
cover only 25% of those in education. The solution to the problem,
as the hon. Member for Scunthorpe said, is to adopt the four
recommendations of the Association of Colleges, the Sixth Form
Colleges Association, and the Association of School and College Leaders.
I shall not go through them in detail, as he has already set them
out...
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